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Professor Nye Parry: CV

Education

 

PhD Electroacoustic Composition (thesis: Limits of Abstraction in Electroacoustic Music),

City University 2001

MA Music Technology, York University 1988

BA (hons) Music 2:1, York University 1987

 

Languages English, German (fluent)

 

Academic Career:

 

2017 Conferment of title of Professor by Trinity Laban Conservatoire

2016 Conferment of title of Professor by Guildhall School of Music and Drama

1996- present: electronic music and composition department, Guildhall School of Music

and Drama: BMus, MMus and Dmus supervision

2010- Trinity/Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Composition (0.4 fte from April 2013)

2011- 13 Research Fellow, CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice), London College of Communication, University of the Arts London

2003- 2011 Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer (from 2005) Middlesex University (0.4fte)

Programme Leader MA Sonic Arts from 2003

2000- 3 & 2011 Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths College (acting course supervisor MA Studio

Composition 2003)

1997- 03 Tutor Drake Music Project – Music charity for disabled adults

 

Research Supervision to Completion:

 

At Guildhall School of Music and Drama:

 

Christos Chatzispyrou 2020, Developing new expressive techniques for the electric guitar with the use of eBow, inspired by the free jazz saxophone.

Johanna Groot Bluemink 2018 Composition, Signifying on the folk music of the American South

Helgi Ingvarsson 2017, DMus Composition, focus: Open Opera

Jonathan Bell 2016, DMus Composition, Audio Scores – A New Compositional Resource

Michael Picknett 2014, DMus composition – Devised Theatre Practices in Contemporary Composition

David Moore 2013, DMus composition – Film and Video Opera

Edmond Finnis 2013, DMus composition – Distortion as a Structuring Principle in Instrumental Composition

Aaron Holloway-Nahum 2012, DMus Composition – Amplification in Contemporary Instrumental Composition

At Goldsmiths College:

 

Dominic Murcott 2003-2009 – A Practice Led Investigation into the Relationship Between

Computer and Live Performer in Multi-Media, Installation and Theatrical Settings

 

At Middlesex University:

 

Charles Matthews 2014 Adapting and Applying Central Javanese Music Theory in Electroacoustic Composition and Performance,  AHRC funded

 

Examining:

 

Research Degrees

 

2019 Ailie Robertson, The Extended Harp. A cultural and musical approach to harp composition, PhD Comopsition, Trinity Laban Conservatoire

2019 Andreas Olaf Friesecke, PhD by public works, Middlesex University

2018 Will Dutta, The Curating Composer: Self Organising Strategies and Initiatives in the Production, Exhibition and Dissemination of Non-Classical Music, PhD, Trinity Laban Conservatoire

2017 Philip Venables, 4.48 Psychosis: Opera as music and text, DMus Guildhall School of Music and Drama

2016 Augustin Leudar, Integrating Plant Electrophysiology and Sonic Art, PhD Queens University Belfast

2015  Andreas Papapetrou, Acts of making and receiving, PhD Composition Trinity Laban Conservatoire

2014 Simone Spagnolo, Each tale chases another Metaphorical representations, non-linearity and openness of narrative structure in Italian Opera from post-WWII to It makes no difference, Trinity Laban Conservatoire

2011 J Simon van der Walt, Music as Theatre, Music as Performance – PhD Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama / St Andrews University

 

Taught Courses

 

2009 – 2014 external examiner, overseeing postgraduate programs (Mmus, PGDip, PGCert), Birmingham Conservatoire / Birmingham City University

2006 – 9 external examiner for composition and electroacoustic music, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

 

External Validations

 

2016 external validator for SAE/Middlesex University MA/MSc Professional Practice (Creative Media Industries)

2009/10 external validator undergraduate Music programmes University College Falmouth (BA Music, BA Popular Music, BA Creative Music Technology)

2007 external validator, MA Sound Arts, LCC, University of the Arts, London

 

Boards and panels:

 

2010- International advisory board for Interference, online peer reviewed sound arts journal

2006- Peer reviewer, Organised Sound(CUP), Oxford Handbooks series (OUP), ICMC (International Computer Music Conference)

2012 Selection Panel, LSO Soundhub

2010 Sonic Arts Panel Member, British Composer Awards

2004 SPNM Shortlist selection Panel

 

 

Keynotes and invited lectures:

 

2016 Keynote: Music as a Spatial Practice, GISUK conference, Greenwich University, 31 March 2016

2015 Keynote: Public Engagement, Private Divorce, Contexts and motivations in a Sonic Arts Practice, Make||Sound Symposium, Leicester 12 June 2015

 

2015 Porto Digital Recife Brazil, Lecture and Workshop (invited by British Consulate S. Paulo)

 

2014 ZKM, Artist Residency and Lecture/Interview (https://zkm.de/en/media/video/ima-lab-nye-parry)

 

2014 Tate Britain, Invited speaker: Field Notes seminar, Artmaps project

 

2011 Whitechapel Gallery, Invited speaker, Sandbox

 

2010 Tate Modern, Invited Speaker, Speaking Out

 

2006 IMT Gallery, Open works and Inside Installations, invited speaker

 

2006 Lecture tour: SAE London, SAE Paris, SAE Munich, SAE Milan, SAE Dubai

 

2004 Sabanci University Istanbul, invited speaker

 

2004 Srishti School of Art and Design, Bangalore, invited artist

 

Articles and chapters in edited books:

 

Nye Parry, Notation and the Work-Concept in Music and Sound Art, in Colloquium: Music – Sound Art, Voegellin S and Gardner T (Eds.) Sept 2016, Zero Books, London,  978-1-78279-894-1, 2016
978-1-78279-895-8

 

Nye Parry, Navigating Sound: Locative and Translocational Approaches to Interactive Audio in Collins, K, Kapralos B and Tessler, H (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio, Oxford University Press 2014, 978-0-19-979722-6 pp. 31-44.

 

Nye Parry, The Two Of Us in Lane, C (Ed.) Playing with Words, The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice, Cornerhouse / CRiSAP 2008 pp. 189-191, ISBN9780955827334 (commissioned experimental text composition)

 

Nye Parry, Helen Bendon, Stephen Boyd Davis and Magnus Moar, Locating Drama: A Demonstration of Location-Aware Audio Drama, in Spierling, U and Szilas, N (Eds.) Interactive Storytelling, LNCS, Springer Verlag 2008 pp. 41-43, ISBN 978-3-540-89424-7

 

 

Michael Irwin, Matthew King and Nye Parry, Brunel, toward an Industrial Opera in Odam G and Bannan N (Eds.) The Reflective Conservatoire: Studies in Music Education, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005, pp. 151-178, ISBN10075465415X

 

Nye Parry, The relocation of concrete music in the environment, Boomtown and Living Steam: Two

Site Specific Installations, in Enders, B and Stange-Elbe, J (Eds.) Global Village, Global Brain Global Music, Epos, 2003, pp. 370-381 ISBN 3-923486-41-3

 

Nye Parry, The Integration of Anecdotal Sounds into an Abstract Musical Language in Enders, B and Stange- Elbe, J (Eds.) Musik im Virtuellen Raum, Osnabrueck Uni Press 2000, pp. 365-374 ISBN 3-934005-64-0

 

Editorials:

 

Nye Parry and Cathy Lane guest editors for Sound History, Memory – themed issue, Organised Sound vol. 11.1, Cambridge University Press

 

Refereed articles in academic journals:

 

Nye Parry, Exploded sounds: spatialised partials in two recent multi-channel installations, Divergence Press, Issue 3, E. Lyon (Ed.), DOI: 10.5920/divp.2015.37

 

Cathy Lane and Nye Parry, The Memory Machine: sound and memory at the British Museum, Organised Sound 10, no. 2, Cambridge University Press September 2005 pp. 141-148

 

Other articles:

 

Nye Parry, Thoughts on Space and Place in the ArtMaps project, commissioned article for Tate Britain’s ArtMaps project Blog 2014, http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/thoughts-on-space-and-place-artmaps-project to accompany public lecture

 

Nye Parry, Peter Vogel: Kontexte für eine Reise durch Zeit und Raum in Neue Zeitschrift Für Musik

2012(3), translated by Jean Martin

 

Nye Parry, Peter Vogel: Contexts for a Journey in Space and Time published on the WERGO DVD The Sound of Shadows 2011 (reprinted in catalogue for Peter Vogel Retrospektiv, Østre, Bergen, Norway)

 

Nye Parry, Is Music coming to terms with Sound Art? New Notes, Sept issue, Society for the Promotion of New Music 2005

 

Selected Conference Presentations:

 

BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures, Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage: Playing the Bridge: exploring the sonic potential of Hull’s swing bridge as a giant musical instrument, July 2017 with J McDowell and M Boyd

EMS 14, Berlin, Nye Parry, Toward Sound installation, Spatial metaphors in the musical avant-garde of the mid 20th Century

Session Chair, In the Field, field recording symposium, British Library, 16^th Feb 2013

INTIME11, Coventry University Sept 2011, Nye Parry, Ludus and Colourscape: an Integrated Performance

Speaking Out Symposium 2010, CRiSAP/Tate Modern Nye Parry, Invited performances and round table discussion

Pervasive 2010, Helsinki, Nye Parry, Helen Bendon, Stephen Boyd Davis and Magnus Moar, Scratch: Video Documentation of translocational Radio Drama, (video presentation)

ISEA 2009, Belfast, Nye Parry, Helen Bendon, Stephen Boyd Davis and Magnus Moar, Moving Tales: Exploring Narrative Strategies for Scalable Locative Audio Drama

Royal Musicological Association 2008, Aberdeen, Matthew King and Nye Parry, The Kingswood Symphony, Sound and Space, presentation of issues arising from the Kingswood Symphony

EMS07, De Montfort University, Nye Parry, Syntax and Discourse: A Re-evaluation of Simon Emmerson’s “The Relation of Language to Materials”, invited paper at 2007

Oral History Society Conference, Bournemouth University, June, 2004, Cathy Lane and Nye Parry, Musical Contexts for Oral History presented at Oral History on Display, The Presentation of Testimony in Museums, Publications and Multi-media’

ICHIM2003 Paris, Cathy Lane and Nye Parry, The Memory Machine, joint paper (proceedings on CDRom ISBN: 1-885363-28-2)

Selected Exhibitions and Performances:

Laboratorio Aperto, Modena, Italy March 2022 – August 2022

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

Manifattura Tabacchi, Cagliari Italy April – Jan 2022

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

Science Gallery, Venice, Feb 2020 – March 2020 (cut short due to Covid)

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

National Museum of Science and Media, Bradford UK, Sept – Nov 2021

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation

 

Science Gallery, Venice, Feb 2020 – March 2020 (cut short due to Covid)

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

Walthamstow High Street, Dec 2019 ongoing, public art commission, 13 Channel sound installation in Mall entrance, Matter Architects, Waltham Forest council

 

Puke Ariki Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand, November 2018 until March 2019

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

Royal Holloway Exhibition Space, April 24^th April – 14 July 2018

Digital Forest, Immersive installation with Madi Boyd

 

Guangdong Science Center, Guangzhou, China April 24th – August 25th 2018

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

OMSI, Portland Oregon, Nov 4^th 2017 – Feb 19th 2018

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

Scale Lane Bridge, Hull April 2017

Playing the Bridge, Audio-visual Installation with Madi Boyd, commissioned by Hull 2017 City of Culture, Creative Communities Programme/ Big Lottery Fund

 

Liberty Science Centre, New Jersey, Feb 4^th – 27^th Aug 2017

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, May 6^th – 27^th Nov 2016

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

Petrosains Centre, Kuala Lumpur Sept 4^th 2015 – Jan 10^th 2016

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

Transmission, St. Catherine’s Church, Telegraph Hill, London Nov 14^th 2015

Sinew, Toy Piano, Indian Harmonium, Melodica,

 

Make||Sound festival exhibition, Highcross Shopping Centre, Leicester, June 6^th – 13^th

Jack, found objects, sound and solenoid

 

Discovery Place, Charlotte, North Carolina, Feb 3^rd-May 10^th  2015

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

 

Kochi Biennale, Kerala Feb 8^th -20^th 2015

Beam, interface design for sound installation by Cathy Lane – real-time sonification of shipping data

 

Gerald Moore Gallery, Eltham, London, Jan 24^th – Feb 28^th  2015

Sculpting Motion sound design for solo exhibition by Madi Boyd,

 

Reuben Fleet Science Centre, San Diego, April 2^nd – Jan 15^th 2015

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation &

The Point of Perception electronic score for audio/visual installation by Madi Boyd

in ILLUSION touring exhibition

 

National Maritime Museum April 2014-Jan 2015

Guiding Lights, sound design for exhibition with students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire)

 

Kinetica Art Fair, Truman Brewery,  Oct 18^th – 19^th 2014

Projective Distortions sound design for installation by Madi Boyd

 

Colourscape Festival, London, Sept 13^th 2014

Ludus, for two Saxophone quartets, computers and dice, site specific performance commission

 

National Maritime Museum, June 7^th – Sept 15^th 2013

Visions of the Universe, 20 channel soundscape design and programming for summer exhibition with Trinity Laban Conservatoire students

 

Kinetica Art Fair, London, Feb 28^th – Mar 3^rd 2013

Fragment Cinema, sound design for Sculpture by Madi Boyd

 

ArtLaboratory Berlin 25^th Jan – 10^th March 2013

The Point of Perception, soundtrack for Light Installation by Madi Boyd in Synaesthesia 2, and ILLUSION, The Science Gallery, Dublin, July 11^th – Sept 19^th

 

The Science Gallery, Dublin, July 11^th – Sept 19^th 2013

Significant Birds 12 channel sound installation in ILLUSION  exhibition

The Point of Perception, soundtrack for Light Installation by Madi Boyd

CBSO Centre, Birmingham 15^th Feb 2013 The Tyranny of Fun sound design, software and direction of electronics for BCMG commission from composer Richard Baker

 Jacopic Gallery Ljubljana, Sept 9^th – 30^th 2012 The Exploded Sound , 60 channel sound installation, in EarZoom festival / ICMC 2012

Colourscape, Turku (Capital of Culture), Finland, Aug 13^th 2011 Ludus!, Live musical game for 2 Saxophone Quartets, Colour sensors, Computer and Dice

BBC Free Thinking Festival 2008, Scratch GPS controlled audio drama, collaboration between BBC Radio Drama and the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Liverpool Nov 08 (with Bendon, Moar, Boyd Davis, Skinner, Mortimer)

British Museum, London, 15 April – 7 September 2003 The Memory Machine (with Cathy Lane) interactive sound installation, The Museum of the Mind: Art and memory in world cultures anniversary exhibition

Science Museum, Triptych, multi-channel installation with live performance by 3 vocalists, London commission (Wellcome trust), 2001

Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Living Steam, Site Specific sound installation Kew Bridge Steam Museum, (Sonic Arts Network / ACE commission) resited: National Railway Museum York

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 1999, Living Steam, Site Specific sound installation Kew Bridge Steam Museum, (Sonic Arts Network / ACE commission) resited: National Railway Museum York

Oldham Art Gallery, Boomtown, site – specific sound installation, 1998 Jan – July 99

The Seasons, 60 minute acousmatic work, Colourscape Festival 1998 , Futura 99, Hessischer Rundfunk, excerpts: ISEA 98 Chicago, Gallery 101 Montreal

Summer at Giverny, State of the Nation 97, BBC Radio 3, (Here and Now)1997

Behold my beautiful Eyes, finalist ACREQ Electro- Clip Competition 1994, 1st perf: ACREQ Montreal 5 June 94 (live broadcast)

Grand Junction, 2nd Prize Barry Anderson/BBC Radio 3 Prize 94, KlangArt 97 selected Bourges 1996, Futura 96, broadcast: France Musique 98, 1989

The Ghost of Faffner Hall, TV puppet series, Henson Org/Tyne Tees TV, 1989

A Passing Phase, short educational piece in John Paynter: Sound and Structure, 1989, OUP ISBN 521 35581 8,  Rereleased on GCSE Anthology of music 2006

Selected Works for Contemporary Dance

2011 Artaud – dance film by Jeremy Millar, Ni Made Pujawati and Ash Mukherjee

2010 The Living Room Yael Flexer Company UK/Isreal tour

2007 Doing, Done, Undone Bedlam Dance Co UK/Israel/Germany tour

2005 Shrink\’d revised and extended UK tour

2004 Shrinkin\’ Youth dance with Bedlam, Laban Centre/ GDA

2003 Grand Junction Charles Linehan, Dance Umbrella

2002 Slightly Less Flexible Bedlam Dance Co. Dance Umbrella 2002

2002 While I hold your Hand Intoto Dance Co. Linbury Studio, ROH

2001 Nowhere Better Than This Place Raphael Bonacela, Film, NFT, Lux

2001 Wallpaper Bedlam / Physical Recall / Circus Space

2001 Undone Scottish Dance Theatre, Dundee

1999 Re-set Intoto Dance Co. Bloomsbury Theatre

2000 Flexible / Not So Flexible Dance Umbrella 2000

1998 Seven 4D dance co. choreographer Yael Flexer

1998 Saturn (part 1) choreographer Colin Poole, Dec 98 GDA

1998 Flexible choreographer Yael Flexer / film Tony Purves, Jerwood Award Research, April 98

1997 In the third Person choreographer Yael Flexer, Bedlam dance co., Oct 97, Swindon

1997 No. 3 choreographer Yael Flexer, Bedlam dance co., Aug 97, Munich

1996 Symbiosis choreographer Colin Poole Dec 96, Chisenhale Dance Space

1996 Ever(Ready) ch: Yael Flexer (The Place June 96)

1995 The Two Seasons, Charles Linehan (The Place Nov 95, Spring Loaded 96)

1994 Falling Light, Charles Linehan, (Mosaics Festival 94, Spring Loaded 95)

1993 Retrace the Defaced Bi Ma Dance Co. UK Tour March/April